Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 16 years in the ranks Jim Crowe was Marine-famed for two things: he was one of the world's topnotch rifle shots and for six years he was a crack player on the all-Marine football teams. He quit football in 1934, a year after an officer remarked: "Jim Crowe must be getting old. He used to make seven out of eight of the team's tackles. Today he made only half...
...Mabs of Hollywood. Mabs Barnes, 35, a flaming redhead, ex-discus thrower and ballet dancer, was disgusted with the girdles and panty girdles on the market when she was a Hollywood movie dancer in 1933. She made a girdle herself, found that other dancers wanted similar girdles, so she quit dancing and started a actory. Now Mabs sells girdles, bathing suits and sports clothes in 800 stores in the U.S. Californians are sure that they have many more like Mabs...
Tesla, who considered Edison a mere inventor, not a scientist, quit in 1885 when Edison refused to pay $50,000 Tesla thought he had been promised for his work. In 1912 Tesla refused the Nobel prize because it was to be shared with Edison. Only after long argument was Tesla prevailed upon to accept the Edison Medal for his achievements...
...What They Could. Last December, Sydenham's trustees finally decided to do what they could, voted to accept Negroes on the medical staff, added several Negro trustees. When the staff was told of the move, two nurses and three other workers quit. But the white doctors held fast. Last February, Negro doctors began work, Negro patients began to filter into private rooms (10-20%) and semiprivate (25%). The hospital's management, worried about mixing races in semiprivate rooms, still asks each patient whether he objects; so far none has balked...
...Physics-Otto Stern, 56, a bald, stocky, mustached German, old friend & associate of Albert Einstein, who quit the University of Hamburg when the Nazis came to power, is now a U.S. citizen and research professor at Carnegie Tech...